Comments on: Lou Dobbs’ Racist Venom http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:49:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: bob h http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1067678 bob h Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:14:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1067678 <p>Lou Dobbs, Harvard class of ‘67. Amazing the way our elite universities have produced so many of the people doing such damage to our country.</p> Lou Dobbs, Harvard class of ‘67. Amazing the way our elite universities have produced so many of the people doing such damage to our country.

]]> By: Marilyn In Texas http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1067564 Marilyn In Texas Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:43:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1067564 <p>Trex. sorry about your back troubles. Mend soon.</p> <p>TexBetsy, are you there? I’d love to meet you Nov 3; where are the Firepups meeting? </p> <p>Also, take care of your back, and wish Cassie happy birthday for me.</p> <p>Marilyn in San Antonio</p> Trex. sorry about your back troubles. Mend soon.

TexBetsy, are you there? I’d love to meet you Nov 3; where are the Firepups meeting?

Also, take care of your back, and wish Cassie happy birthday for me.

Marilyn in San Antonio

]]> By: J http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1067005 J Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:44:24 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1067005 <p>Dobbs actually shows outrage in the mainstream and I think this is a good thing. I wish we heard more outrage about the Bush administration and Dobbs actually cuts loose. He actally has some solid points about the enforcement of federal and state regulations. There are Qualified “others” concerned about voter fraud via licensing too (I will get names)</p> <p> There is plenty of “long winded dissembling” on the right left and center.</p> Dobbs actually shows outrage in the mainstream and I think this is a good thing. I wish we heard more outrage about the Bush administration and Dobbs actually cuts loose. He actally has some solid points about the enforcement of federal and state regulations. There are Qualified “others” concerned about voter fraud via licensing too (I will get names)

There is plenty of “long winded dissembling” on the right left and center.

]]> By: pseudonymous in nc http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066994 pseudonymous in nc Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:41:11 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066994 <p>EPU, but: Dobbs may not be a bigot, but he’s an enabler of bigots. </p> <p>He has helped turn ‘immigrant’ into a dirty word in political discourse, and as someone with a green card, white skin and English as my native language, I find that really, really offensive. </p> <p>Lou Dobbs is the reason why people around me now assume that ‘immigrant’ means ‘illegal’ means ‘criminal’. He is a stalking horse for nativist fucks.</p> <p>Spitzer’s proposal was correct. He got bullied out of it by a blowhard. He should have had the balls to stand up to Dobbs and the pasty ladder-pulling mofos in Albany, the most virulent of whom have surnames that you’ll find scrawled in the record books at Ellis Island.</p> EPU, but: Dobbs may not be a bigot, but he’s an enabler of bigots.

He has helped turn ‘immigrant’ into a dirty word in political discourse, and as someone with a green card, white skin and English as my native language, I find that really, really offensive.

Lou Dobbs is the reason why people around me now assume that ‘immigrant’ means ‘illegal’ means ‘criminal’. He is a stalking horse for nativist fucks.

Spitzer’s proposal was correct. He got bullied out of it by a blowhard. He should have had the balls to stand up to Dobbs and the pasty ladder-pulling mofos in Albany, the most virulent of whom have surnames that you’ll find scrawled in the record books at Ellis Island.

]]> By: Oilfieldguy http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066796 Oilfieldguy Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:01:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066796 <p>Spending the last two days in the desolation between Laredo and Freer, TX, known as “the valley” to truck drivers. This cactus and mesquite covered parched terrain is unlike any “valley” in my mind. It is also crawling with immigrtion officials, occasionaly nabbing wore-out and dehydrated people desperately seeking a better life.</p> <p>Got me to thinking.</p> <p>How many people born here want to be American enough to go through the kind of shit they have? </p> <p>There should be a better way.</p> Spending the last two days in the desolation between Laredo and Freer, TX, known as “the valley” to truck drivers. This cactus and mesquite covered parched terrain is unlike any “valley” in my mind. It is also crawling with immigrtion officials, occasionaly nabbing wore-out and dehydrated people desperately seeking a better life.

Got me to thinking.

How many people born here want to be American enough to go through the kind of shit they have?

There should be a better way.

]]> By: Sam http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066560 Sam Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:13:28 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066560 <p>everyone is racist and theres nothing to change that, hate and anger exist in all humans and until we live life in mindfulness and peace nothing is ever going to change. the holy spirit is in us not the sky.</p> everyone is racist and theres nothing to change that, hate and anger exist in all humans and until we live life in mindfulness and peace nothing is ever going to change. the holy spirit is in us not the sky.

]]> By: msmolly http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066549 msmolly Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:10:46 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066549 <p><a href="#comment-1066492"><em>Jane Hamsher @ 178</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1066472"><em>katymine @ 158</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb">Face Book event - Portland OR</a><br /> FDL pup meeting<br /> theotherwash and I will be meeting up on 11/3 at 3pm at:<br /> Blue Moose<br /> 4936 N.E. Fremont St<br /> Portland, Oregon</p> <p>Anyone in the area can join us…</p></blockquote> <p>jealous</p></blockquote> <p>[Preview is my friend, my friend, my friend!]</p> <p>Me too….stranded in NW Indiana…whiiine</p> Jane Hamsher @ 178

katymine @ 158

Face Book event – Portland OR
FDL pup meeting
theotherwash and I will be meeting up on 11/3 at 3pm at:
Blue Moose
4936 N.E. Fremont St
Portland, Oregon

Anyone in the area can join us…

jealous

[Preview is my friend, my friend, my friend!]

Me too….stranded in NW Indiana…whiiine

]]> By: RonD http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066535 RonD Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:06:46 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066535 <p><a href="#comment-1066484"><em>Loo Hoo. @ 170</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>RonD, what a horrible story.</p></blockquote> <p>Yes. I knew this guy’s kids-went to school with them. Which is how I knew the story before he got arrested.<br /> I also have a problem with the “jobs Americans won’t do” meme. When I was in high school, everyone I knew-and I attended the second-largest HS in the continental US at the time-would go out occasionally to work these “jobs that Americans won’t do”. Money to go to the concert this weekend? Spend a day picking oranges! What? A keg for the party Saturday, or more money for a date or a prom? Go pick strawberries for a day or two!<br /> Everyone did stuff like that, just a few years ago. Would I do it now for the same money I did then? No.</p> Loo Hoo. @ 170

RonD, what a horrible story.

Yes. I knew this guy’s kids-went to school with them. Which is how I knew the story before he got arrested.
I also have a problem with the “jobs Americans won’t do” meme. When I was in high school, everyone I knew-and I attended the second-largest HS in the continental US at the time-would go out occasionally to work these “jobs that Americans won’t do”. Money to go to the concert this weekend? Spend a day picking oranges! What? A keg for the party Saturday, or more money for a date or a prom? Go pick strawberries for a day or two!
Everyone did stuff like that, just a few years ago. Would I do it now for the same money I did then? No.

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066532 punaise Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:05:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066532 <p><a href="#comment-1066510"><em>raven @ 196</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Obama serving waffles from jump street.</p></blockquote> <p>I(hippity)HOP</p> raven @ 196

Obama serving waffles from jump street.

I(hippity)HOP

]]> By: raven http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066529 raven Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:04:47 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/30/lou-dobbs-racist-venom/#comment-1066529 <p>Edwards jumpin ugly.</p> Edwards jumpin ugly.

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